Since the 1980s, middleware has been the de facto solution in linking new applications to older legacy systems, often referred to as the “hub-and-spoke” model. It has also played a critical part in integrating and connecting multiple applications across the IT infrastructure.

Dell Boomi has transformed this once rigid, complex and costly approach into an easy and fast distributed integration of cloud-based and on-premise applications, without requiring additional appliances, software or coding. Dell Boomi continues to sustain strong market traction with its new class of integration solutions, generating growth of an estimated 263 percent in integration processes executed since last year. In addition, Dell Boomi provides “production-grade scalability, in terms of endpoints and daily volume of data flow, as well as very broad support for public SaaS and IaaS vendors.”[1]

“Traditional integration architectures based on hub-and-spoke models are no longer relevant and forcing all integration of the spokes or application traffic through one central hub simply won’t work anymore,” said Rick Nucci, founder and general manager, Dell Boomi. “In short, we’re witnessing the end of middleware as we know it.”

The chase to the cloud has uncovered a significant mismatch between traditional middleware approaches with today’s “as-a-service” application environments. Clients using competing integration solutions have been exposed to costly and complex approaches, including rip-and-replace or buy-more-hardware strategies as well as expensive managed service engagements to do the heavy-lifting of application integration.

“As a global leader in high-performance storage systems, we need to focus on the core of our business, not managing integration infrastructure,” said John Lake, director of information systems, Panasas. “The Dell Boomi AtomSphere platform has reduced the time-to-value on multiple projects and allowed our team to create innovative solutions that were once not possible. We’re helping to drive our business forward, finding new ways to leverage Dell Boomi across our organization, and delivering the value and cost savings so important in today’s economy.”

“Raising the bar for agile, efficient and seamless cloud-managed integrations has been our focus since Dell acquired Boomi two years ago,” said John Swainson, president, Dell Software. “Continuing to deliver unparalleled value to application integration that surpasses our customer expectations is not only our goal, but also a formula for fueling ongoing software revenue growth.”

Dell Boomi understands that being a trusted cloud partner means keeping customers informed on the health of the systems running their business. www.Trust.boomi.com offers customers and the industry a comprehensive view of the number of Dell Boomi application integrations processed daily as well as a picture of the overall system health.

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